...which is funny, because all I remember Democrats talking about back then was how slow the response was because George Bush hates black people.

But that's not the important point, here. The important point is that now we know that in the Inside-The-Beltway mind, Sandy was far more devastating than Katrina, despite the latter killing 1833* to the former's 113.

This provides us a handy metric for future use: If you live in flyover country, you're right around 1/16th of a real person to the bicoastal power elite.

*Well, 1833ish. Some parts of the Gulf Coast were so thoroughly annihilated that we're really kinda spitballing, here.

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I'm not sure which is worse: the thought that the political elites have no memory past the most recent election, or that they believe that is the case with the voters. Or that the latter may be a mostly correct assumption.

I still want to hear why Obama is doing it right on Sandy and Bush did it wrong on Katrina. . . That should be a great piece of spin. . . And where is the outrage from the left against Obama for all these people they are not helping???

Chris - I'm not sure which is worse: the thought that the political elites have no memory past the most recent election, or that they believe that is the case with the voters. Or that the latter may be a mostly correct assumption.

The last case is worst.

To borrow from a wise old sage, "Who's the fool? The fool, or the one who follows him?"

I'm sorry, I musta missed all the footage of Joisy-ites bein' helicoptered off'en the roofs of their hovels...and the flooded school-buses in their yards that could have carried evacuees out of danger. Missed that, somehow.....

I can't believe you're comparing Sandy to Katrina, Tam. Just think of all the upper middle class New Yorkers and Philadelphians who lost expensive vacation homes on the Jersey Shore. Think of all the donations to the DSCC that won't be made this year because the insurance hit for Hurricanes in 22% of value. Most importantly, won't someone think of Snookie? Oh, the humanity!

"...and the flooded school-buses in their yards that could have carried evacuees out of danger."

Well the train guys did leave 600 million dollars of rolling stock and new locomotives in the lowest marshalling yard in Northern Jersey and it predictably got flooded out.

Pity we didn't get round the clock visuals of that. And remember 2-3 guys could have hooked all that gear together and towed it away to somewhere non-floodable and they didn't bother. And no one has lost their job about it.

There are six states in New England - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While New York and New Jersey are in the Northeast region, they are not part of New England. Some identify parts of upstate New York as sharing some of the same culture, but that only upsets many of the residents of upstate New York. On the other hand, Vermont is the only state of the eight Northeast states mentioned that does not require a license to carry handguns either open or concealed, which makes them unique from the others, almost like an island population of citizens who know what it is like to be free, to have liberty and choose to keep it that way.

Scott S. Well, things are looking awfully Weimarish, to be sure. We had an administration large numbers of cranks believed to be not properly in power (not my president)and another considered by a smaller number of nut jobs to be not properly in power (birthers), a big spending spree on borrowed money, we even have the "Dolchstoss", the "stab in the back" where the war would have been won on the battle field but for the home front and communists/other groups of disloyals, nurtured by ex military (not 1918 but Vietnam).We have everyone seemingly polarized in political parties with no chance of compromise,and people panicked over things causally not possible (Germans in 1929 were panicked over a "gas gun" which could spray a knockout gas a la the Green Hornet, so it had to be banned. 20 years ago there was the idea that the Glock was plastic and therefore not detectible via x ray. Now it's scary looking weapons with the equivalent of air dams and go fast stripes and 6 point harnesses in street cars.The only thing we're missing is the brawling in the streets between the international socialists and the national socialists. Occupy came closest to that one.So, we are only one arrogant constitution-ignoring charismatic totalitarian leftist bully thug from real trouble.

"Pity we didn't get round the clock visuals of that. And remember 2-3 guys could have hooked all that gear together and towed it away to somewhere non-floodable and they didn't bother. And no one has lost their job about it."

"Pity we didn't get round the clock visuals of that. And remember 2-3 guys could have hooked all that gear together and towed it away to somewhere non-floodable and they didn't bother. And no one has lost their job about it."

Seems odd. I know when Irene came through recently, the railroad in Newport News, VA cleared the rail yard out and occupied every bit of inland yard and siding till deep in West Virginia. I bet the local manager lost his job, but no-one else.

And to think they voted overwhelmingly for Bam and his people. BTW.. Repubs held up the bill due to the unlimited pork in it and no discretion as to how the fund woud be spent.. Too much hankey-pankey in the bill